Elections
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Vote No on Prop 6: The Campaign Is an Incoherent and Childish Effort to Distract You from Donald Trump
Santa isn’t coming to fix California's roads.
August 30, 2018
SPUR Talk: District 8, Housing Density, and the Mayoral Election
And more weirdness in San Francisco politics
June 8, 2018
Bay Area Advocates Respond to Nail-Biter Election Results
RM3 passes, Mandelman takes District 8, and the Mayor is...???
June 7, 2018
June 2018 Election Round-Up
Good news on several state measures that impact livability. Bad news on a Southern California recall that could be a proxy for a push to repeal the state's recent gas tax increase
June 6, 2018
Breaking Down Prop 69
Proposition 69 would require that funds generated by last year's gas tax increase be spent only on transportation projects. It's pretty straightforward.
June 4, 2018
What the Candidates for Governor Say About Transportation and Land Use Issues
Seven gubernatorial candidates were invited to share their views on transportation and land use by a team of advocates working on those issues.
May 11, 2018
S.F. Advocates Release Questionnaire Results and Endorsements for June Election
The San Francisco Transit Riders (SFTR) released the results of its "Ride the Vote" survey yesterday.
April 26, 2018
New L.A. Election Vote Totals: CD1 Runoff Highly Likely, Measures S and H
New vote tallies make a Cedillo vs. Bray-Ali run-off very very likely. Measure H almost certainly received its needed two-thirds margin.
March 20, 2017
L.A. Election Wrap-Up: Joe Bray-Ali, and Measures S and H
Good news in the passage of Measure H and the defeat of Measure S, while the L.A. City Council race between Gil Cedillo and Joe Bray-Ali remains too close to call definitively.
March 9, 2017
Election? Oh, Right. We Also Voted on Transportation Taxes in California
There is some good election news today, believe it or not. Some of the transportation sales tax measures we've been writing about ad nauseum look like they will pass, even with some mail-in ballots still to be counted. The vote counts listed below are from the local county election sites, most of which were updated late last night.
November 9, 2016